Healthcare Data Analyst II

Valley Medical Center

Renton, WA

Present - 2017

• Collects, cleans, analyzes, and presents data to committees in order to help drive performance improvement decisions
  
• Creates visualizations and dashboards that highlight data in a meaningful way and works to interpret the results for clinical staff
  
• Investigates data issues and discrepancies which could be harmful to downstream analysis and decision-making
  
• Able to create insights and communicate to non-technical stakeholders
  
• Works with data warehouses and various state/national registries for data acquisition
• Promoted from Healthcare Data Analyst I in 2019

AEGIS Fire Controlman

United States Navy

San Diego, CA

2015 - 2009

• Supervised and utilized problem-solving skills in the response to all Fire Control System and 400Hz generation system casualties, resulting in minimal downtime and high equipment readiness
  
• Strong team communication during normal and emergency events
  
• Coordinated on-the-job and career-enhancing training
  
• Meticulous attention to detail in a high-stress environment

University of Washington

M.S. in Business Analytics

Tacoma, WA

2021 - 2020

• 3.97/4.0 GPA
• Core education: advanced regression, data mining, text mining, analytical decision-making, end-to-end data analysis
• Coursework summary: decision trees, risk and decision simulation/analysis, CART, structural equation models (SEM), time series, neural networks, KNN, SVM, penalized regression, Bayesian statistics, TF-IDF, text classification, sentiment/polarity analysis
• Applied Project: worked as a Business Intelligence consultant on discharge barriers quantification for Virginia Mason Franciscan Health which was a year-long data mining project involving SQL queried JSON data, bivariate analysis, free text analysis, classification, and regression modeling

University of Washington

B.S. in Health Informatics and Health Information Management

Seattle, WA

2017 - 2016

• 3.85/4.0 GPA
  
• Dean’s list all four quarters
  
• Exposure to HIPAA and electronic medical record laws and concepts
  
• Senior Capstone Project: COAP & OB COAP Training Manuals for Foundation for Health Care Quality
  
• Designed informative and aesthetically pleasing manuals for physician use
  
• Synthesized important components of databases to produce periodic and customized reports

Mentor

University of Washington - BS in HIHIM program

Seattle, WA

2022 - 2020

Food Packaging Volunteer

Food Lifeline

Seattle, WA

2020 - 2019

Volunteer

Seattle Health Information Management Association (SHIMA)

Seattle, WA

2017 - 2016

Errands & Escorts

Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children’s Hospital

Spokane, WA

2016 - 2015